A series of policies and measures have been devised and implemented by authorities of the Mekong Delta province of Trà Vinh in recent years to improve the spiritual and material life of the Khmer community.
Now the week-long Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday has ended and schools have resumed, many classrooms in mountainous localities still feel strangely empty as local students have not returned.
The HCM City Department of Transport aims to have 75 per cent of the new buses running on clean fuel by the end of 2020.
Traditional slaughterhouses are expected to be shut down this year after industrial scale facilities open, but owners of older slaughterhouses believe there is not enough time to shift fully to the new mechanised processing, according to a report in Người Lao Động (The Labourer) newspaper.
Drinking is common among Mông people in Khun Há Commune, Tam Đường District. Local men in the village used to drink heavily. This is among major causes of poverty, domestic violence, and social disorder in this community. However, things are getting better.
The HCM City Department of Transport’s Management Centre of Public Transport will organise an auction for 11 bus advertising packages for the fourth time on March 8 at Tân Bình District’s Auction Centre.
HCM City will need nearly 10,000 classrooms for 1.7 million students in the 2019-2020 academic year, according to the city’s Department of Education and Training.
A working team has been formed by the Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam (DRVN) to probe toll collection activities at the Dầu Giây toll station in the southern province of Đồng Nai.
A Laos national was arrested by border guards in the central province of Hà Tĩnh yesterday while carrying 294kg of crystal meth from Laos to Việt Nam.
The Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ plans to build its first green infrastructure project in the form of a car park, Vietnam News Agency reported on Thursday.
One person was killed and seven others were injured in a road accident in the central province of Thanh Hóa yesterday.
A reaction plan to the African swine fever (ASF) is being developed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development after pigs were found infected with the disease in neighbouring countries.
Everyday fully-loaded motorbikes reach the most remote areas of Cư Prao Commune in Ma Đ’rắc District, Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk to distribute fresh food and essential items. They are the life-blood of the remote ethic areas.
The number of people admitted to hospital with dengue fever in HCM City has increased sharply so far this year though it is not the peak disease season, according to the city Preventive Medicine Centre.
Minister of National Defence Ngô Xuân Lịch has urged agencies to seek local and foreign resources in capital and technologies to implement the first phase of a US-funded project to resolve dioxin contamination at Biên Hoà airbase in Đồng Nai Province, which is expected to begin in April.
The HCM City Real Estate Association (HoRea) has recommended that the People’s Committee be more selective about giving licences to high-rise buildings.
The central province of Quảng Nam has introduced the first hi-tech shrimp farming projects in Thăng Bình District’s Coastal Bình Hải Commune on 6.5 hectares with a total investment of VNĐ33 billion (US$1.5 million).
Farmers in the Mekong Delta have begun harvesting the winter –spring rice crop in areas where it was sowed early, and yields are high.
Salt producers in the southern coastal province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu have been busy with their harvest in recent days thanks to the good weather around Tết.
The southern province of Sóc Trăng is continuing to offer preferential policies to encourage the development of agricultural production and consumption models as well as economic efficiency among farmers.
